Archives for 19 September 2006
Sonali Out - 09/20 to 09/25
Published 19 Sep 2006 at 11:21 am.
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Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar will be out of town on a book tour from September 20-25th. She will be back live on Tuesday September 26th.
House Passes Border Fence Legislation
Published 19 Sep 2006 at 9:21 am.
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Last Thursday, the House of Representatives passed “The Secure Fence Act of 2006,†that calls for erecting a 700 mile double layer wall along the U.S.-Mexican border. House Resolution 6061 passed by a vote of 283 – 138. The …
FCC Supresses its own Report
Published 19 Sep 2006 at 9:21 am.
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GUEST: Adam Candeub, Assistant Professor of Law at Michigan State University College of Law
Last week, California Senator Barbara Boxer released a draft of a study by the Federal Communications Commission, showing that media consolidation leads to less local TV news coverage. Adam Candeub, a former lawyer with the FCC said FCC managers ordered the …
Save The New Standard!
Published 19 Sep 2006 at 9:21 am.
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GUESTS: Brian Dominick, Jessica Azulay, members of the New Standard Collective
As my producer and I opened one of our favorite online news sites yesterday, we were faced with the words, “TNS Slated to Disappear.” TNS is the The New Standard, a news service managed by a collective of journalists and published by a …
September 19, 2006
Published 19 Sep 2006 at 9:02 am.
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The History that Might Have Been
Christopher Columbus couldn’t discover America: he didn’t have a visa or even a passport.
Pedro Alvares CAbral couldn’t get off the boat in Brazil: he might have been carrying smallpox, measles, the flu, or other foreign plagues.
Hernan Cortes and Francisco Pizarro could never have begun the conquest of Mexico and Peru: they didn’t have working papers.
Pedro de Alvarado was turned away …
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